On 7 August 2013 11:55, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > On 7 August 2013 12:51, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 7 August 2013 09:33, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: >> > I'm deleting the quotes of the earlier discussion as it is not relevant >> to my point here. >> > >> > I have no experience of building with Java and care little about the >> security holes, so I bow to the expertise of those who know better. >> > >> > If changes are being made to the OpenOffice/Java interaction, would it >> be possible that these be done in such a way that no matter whether >> installed on a 32 or 64 bit windows, OpenOffice interfaced correctly with >> the installed Java, so doing away with the requirement that a 32 bit Java >> be installed. >> >> +1 >> > +1 > >> >> AOO should work with what is installed, [though there is probably no >> need to support Java 4 or earlier any more.] >> Just because Java 5 or 6 is no longer current does not mean it is not >> being used. >> In particular, businesses tend to stay on older versions of Java (and >> OS) until the cost of updating is less than the cost of not updating. >> > > correct, but at the same time companies are typically security aware, and > java 6 (and below) have some serious know issues. > > I would have thought that its possible to develop/built with java 7 and > still have java 5,6 as runtime environment, but looking at the code it does > not seem easy (we would have to get the java version, and use different API > calls).
Java is upwards compatible (except parts of JDBC). So it should be possible to restrict the code to the Java 5 API and it would then work on Java 6 and 7 and 8 etc. > rgds > jan I. > > >> >> > This would prevent many queries on the Forum of why OO doesn't work with >> an installed Java. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
